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To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
Sophie Swetchine
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Sophie Swetchine
Age: 74 †
Born: 1782
Born: November 22
Died: 1857
Died: September 10
Diarist
Lady-In-Waiting
Salonnière
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Moscow
Russian SFSR
Sofia Petrovna Soymonova
Madame Swetchine
Swetchine
Anne Sophie Swetchine
Deeply
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Loving
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The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.
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Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.
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The very might of the human intellect reveals its limits.
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Feeling loves a subdued light.
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Men are always invoking justice yet it is justice which should make them tremble.
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The best advice on the art of being happy is about as easy to follow as advice to be well when one is sick.
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I love victory, but I love not triumph.
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Let us not fail to scatter along our pathway the seeds of kindness and sympathy. Some of them will doubtless perish but if one only lives, it will perfume our steps and rejoice our eyes.
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What is resignation? It is putting God between one's self and one's grief.
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He who has ceased to enjoy his friend's superiority has ceased to love him.
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Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.
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We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.
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